Google is partnering with the U.K. satellite-TV box Freesat to offer an HTML5 YouTube channel. Freesat, which is backed by the BBC and ITV, is a set-top satellite TV box that offers 180 channels and doesn’t require a monthly subscriptin.
by
Laura Owen
Feb 11, 2013 - 7:05 AM PST
UK commercial broadcaster ITV has long funded its free shows with advertising. Three years after declaring its intention to charge online, it is now finally publicly testing a paid VOD service.
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Robert Andrews
Oct 29, 2012 - 6:55 AM PST
Whilst adding Viacom as a US investor, Zeebox wants to augment The X Factor not just with tweets but with a parallel live tablet video stream. Is this second-screen convergence, or just multimedia overkill?
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Robert Andrews
Oct 4, 2012 - 5:15 AM PST
UK regulators will next month consider whether to go on allowing voting in TV talent shows via mobile apps, following high-profile slip-ups by one of the industry’s leading vendors.
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Robert Andrews
Jul 24, 2012 - 1:11 AM PST
With its pay-for on-demand TV player nearing release and its YouView era about to begin, UK commercial broadcast leader ITV is restructuring its online division, with a change in leadership and job likely losses.
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Robert Andrews
Jul 5, 2012 - 6:40 AM PST
In this summer Olympic host country, online ad sellers have mounting concerns that the Games would suck away ad spending, rather than boost it.
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Robert Andrews
Jun 15, 2012 - 6:35 AM PST
When it comes to TV’s emerging second screen phenomenon, broadcasters have been dipping toes in the water. This weekend, some are putting in a whole leg.
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Robert Andrews
May 4, 2012 - 10:26 AM PST
UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) will launch a bold new news website this spring, will start trialling its delayed “Pay Player” this M…
by
Robert Andrews
Feb 29, 2012 - 9:07 AM PST
The UK’s leading pay-TV provider BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is taking a significant step to improve its PVR box’s new IP on-demand TV service by addi…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 30, 2012 - 8:23 AM PST
TV producer FremantleMedia UK has created a new digital division out of the existing operations of two of its constituent production compani…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 16, 2012 - 3:15 PM PST
The UK’s leading commercial TV broadcaster, ITV (LSE: ITV), has issued a “rallying cry” for industry-wide harmonisation of ad targeting tech…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 14, 2011 - 7:00 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is making 10 dedicated online news producers redundant from regional newsrooms around the UK, as it tries to instill digital…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2011 - 7:48 AM PST
ITV’s Rugby World Cup strategy for mobile was tackled in to touch Friday morning when its dedicated mobile app failed to materialise and its…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 9, 2011 - 7:00 AM PST
UK tournament rightsholder ITV (LSE: ITV) will try to reach rugby fans at the office and on mobile because this year’s Rugby World Cup in Ne…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2011 - 6:18 AM PST
— FT Video: Financial Times’ head of video, Richard Edgar, has left to join ITV (LSE: ITV) News’ new business team, alongside new business…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 1, 2011 - 9:27 AM PST
“We plan to have a pay mechanism in place around the turn of the year so that we can test what people will pay for (online),” ITV (LSE: ITV)…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 27, 2011 - 4:37 AM PST
UK broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) has launched one of its first efforts on the way to charging for some digital content, an aim set by new CEO A…
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Robert Andrews
May 31, 2011 - 4:52 AM PST
— Mike Bracken: Outgoing GNM digital development director is becoming executive director of digital efficiency and reform group at the UK g…
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Robert Andrews
May 20, 2011 - 12:53 PM PST
In its interim Q1 earnings report, the UK’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) says: “We’ve been investing in making ITV Player m…
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Robert Andrews
May 11, 2011 - 3:27 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) under Adam Crozier and Fru Hazlitt remains refreshingly honest, admitting again today its “performance online remains subscal…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 2, 2011 - 1:09 PM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) : The broadcaster is creating a multiplatform commissioning and digital content controller under online MD Robin Pembrooke…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 18, 2011 - 9:07 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is set to crank its paid online strategy up a gear. It’s hired former BBC Online exec James Micklethwait to head a new team r…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 31, 2011 - 12:23 PM PST
The Scottish online family tree operator which relieved ITV (LSE: ITV) of Friends Reunited in 2009 says its annual turnover was 23 percent u…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 12, 2011 - 1:29 PM PST
Reports MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) is due to make big layoffs and reduce to a skeleton international staff appear to have been lent credence by new…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 10, 2011 - 2:19 PM PST
Here’s the iTunes Store UK top songs chart, 10 hours after X Factor winner Matt Cardle’s single went on sale through the store at midnight..…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 13, 2010 - 8:48 AM PST
BBC Worldwide is swelling its mobile app portfolio, after finding some success with earlier launches. It already publishes several, paid iPh…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 24, 2010 - 10:58 AM PST
In years gone by, it was the near-inevitability of the X Factor winner’s Christmas number one that would bring a big seasonal rush to iTunes…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 11, 2010 - 7:19 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has signed a three-year deal with onscreen branding and channel playout agency Red Bee Media to look after all its programmin…
by
Robert Andrews
Oct 7, 2010 - 8:44 AM PST
Some unsolicited advice on Telegraph.co.uk today, from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes to ITV (LSE: ITV), which, under new chief Ada…
by
Robert Andrews
Oct 5, 2010 - 5:12 AM PST
If you thought X Factor contestant Katie Vogel/Katie Waissel/Lola Fontaine looked familiar, that’s because she’s no newcomer to the music bu…
by
Robert Andrews
Oct 4, 2010 - 5:52 AM PST
Interactive TV gaming company Netplay is lamenting its ITV1 late-night game for a 146 percent bigger half-year loss of £7.9 million.
Compa…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 30, 2010 - 10:29 AM PST
While there’s excitement over the supposed 99-cent TV show rentals on the new iTV, my belief is that won’t be enough to make iTV a success. There are a few other important things Apple needs to do to make this device more than just its hobby.
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Michael Wolf
Aug 27, 2010 - 12:30 PM PST
While there’s excitement over the supposed 99-cent TV show rentals on the new iTV, my belief is that won’t be enough to make iTV a success. There are a few other important things Apple needs to do to make this device more than just its hobby.
by
Michael Wolf
Aug 27, 2010 - 7:00 AM PST
It’s been a while since Apple’s (s aapl) rumor mill has held the attention of the buying public with anything like the hype that led up to the release of the iPad and iPhone 4, but the rumored iTV is on track to come pretty close.
by
Darrell Etherington
Aug 23, 2010 - 4:57 PM PST
A few new deals see would-be VOD aggregators march forward at a similar pace…
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is adding VOD from seven TV channels to th…
by
Robert Andrews
Aug 18, 2010 - 7:50 AM PST
Apple TV, we hardly knew ya… Engadget is reporting today that Apple will rename its living room device to iTV to closer lign up with the branding of other iProducts. There’s also news about the specs of the device: It won’t be able to play 1080p.
by
Janko Roettgers
Aug 11, 2010 - 2:23 PM PST
By Mark Sweney: ITV (LSE: ITV) is looking to launch an online micropayment system and has admitted that it hopes to charge for some of the c…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Aug 3, 2010 - 10:51 AM PST
ITV’s half-year online sales rose from £10 million last year to £12 million this year. But ITV (LSE: ITV) says: “However, the online busin…
by
Robert Andrews
Aug 3, 2010 - 4:11 AM PST
By Mark Sweney: ITV (LSE: ITV) has appointed Paul Dale, a former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and BBC senior executive, to a newly created role to addr…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Jul 29, 2010 - 11:59 AM PST
Within a couple of hours of BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) announcing it’s nicked Virgin Media’s UK VOD rights to HBO shows, the cable operator rushed ou…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 29, 2010 - 5:26 AM PST
Scottish Channel 3 licencee STV is joining Channel 4 and Five as the next major UK broadcaster to syndicate full shows to YouTube.
Though i…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 29, 2010 - 12:25 PM PST
ITV Live – the broadcaster’s info-laden, dual-screen viewing beta, which we reported about pre-launch – got an inauspicious debut during the…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 21, 2010 - 12:26 PM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) mobile streams: The broadcaster, from June 11, will simulcast ITV1 and ITV2 via iPhone mobile web at www.itv.com/watchITV/…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 3, 2010 - 9:36 AM PST
ITV’s new CEO Adam Crozier is doing a significant restructure, bringing in former GCap CEO Fru Hazlitt to be MD of newly-combined commercial…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 3, 2010 - 7:54 AM PST
— Absolute Radio: The broadcaster says it’s overhauled its entire website to be HTML5-compatible, so all the video and other components wor…
by
Robert Andrews
May 21, 2010 - 11:05 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is now hiding its quarterly online revenue in its combined Broadcasting & Online category, so who knows how much money it’s m…
by
Robert Andrews
May 7, 2010 - 6:55 AM PST
By Mark Sweney: ITV (LSE: ITV) is to launch its first teleshopping programme on its flagship channel, ITV1, featuring home shopping company…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Apr 23, 2010 - 10:35 AM PST
To Prime Ministerial hopeful David, add another Cameron who used to work at ITV – the broadcaster is bidding goodbye to the head of ITV.com,…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 16, 2010 - 8:49 AM PST
— Thrillist: The email newsletter for men aged 24-35 is opening a London edition, written by Jason Allen.
— ITV-Hulu: The pair are still…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 15, 2010 - 12:35 PM PST
A pretty big UK client win for Demand Media – after months of talks, ITV (LSE: ITV) is picking its Pluck social platform to manage viewer en…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 30, 2010 - 6:57 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) placed a £30 million value on its online operations last year – but this was significantly smaller than the £68 million it…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 3, 2010 - 7:29 AM PST
— We7 The music site’s premium service has gone live, as expected. In fact, there are two premium offerings – the £9.99-a-month option req…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 1, 2010 - 3:17 PM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) betting: The broadcaster wants a piece of online bookies’ success – it’s running a version of WilliamHill.com through ITV.…
by
Robert Andrews
Feb 22, 2010 - 2:26 PM PST
ITV’s new guard will be happy with this – after a three-month inquiry, the Competition Commission has provisionally approved the £25 millio…
by
Robert Andrews
Feb 18, 2010 - 10:50 AM PST
— STV/NetPlay: More crossover between online gambling and broadcasters in the UK. Scottish ITV (LSE: ITV) franchise STV signed a two-year d…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 12, 2010 - 11:43 AM PST
— .Fox UK MD leaves: Federica Aperio is stepping down as the managing director of .Fox Networks, the UK sales and ad network for Fox Intern…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 8, 2010 - 3:07 PM PST
– Dr Who: The BBC is planning to extend the Dr Who franchise into games. This signals the BBC re-entering the gaming industry after shutting…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 1, 2010 - 10:43 AM PST
— AOP research: ITV (LSE: ITV) commercial research and insight head Sarah Messer is the Association of Online Publishers’ new research comm…
by
Robert Andrews
Jan 14, 2010 - 7:34 PM PST
In the traditional post-Christmas rush of interest in genealogy, will ITV (LSE: ITV) finally get to sell Friends Reunited to Findmypast.com…
by
Robert Andrews
Jan 4, 2010 - 9:39 AM PST
— Virgin music: Remember when Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) said it would launch an unlimited music service? It only had UMG on board and that’…
by
Robert Andrews
Dec 14, 2009 - 9:20 AM PST
The UK’s ITV (s ITV) will make available episodes of the CW Hit Show Vampire Diaries on Apple’s (s AAPL) iTunes well…
by
Janko Roettgers
Dec 11, 2009 - 6:08 PM PST
— Canal+ football: Vivendi’s French broadcaster Canal+ has sealed the exclusive rights to show English Premier League matches live in Franc…
by
Patrick Smith
Dec 11, 2009 - 10:49 AM PST
If you thought white-collar social media theory and ITV’s “karaoke” show were chalk and cheese, think again. John, Edward and their X-Factor…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 18, 2009 - 4:12 PM PST
The Scottish Channel 3 franchise owner’s relationship with the ITV (LSE: ITV) mothership is heading for break-up but, in the meantime, let t…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 17, 2009 - 6:24 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) continues to sell more ads to its growing web video audience – ITV.com income hit £16 million in the January-to-September pe…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 5, 2009 - 7:33 AM PST
ITV’s sale of Friends Reunited to Scottish web company Brightsolid for £25 million has been referred to the Competition Commission by the O…
by
Patrick Smith
Nov 2, 2009 - 1:37 PM PST
— PlayStation video: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment Europe has released images of the user portal for its forthcoming PlayStation…
by
Patrick Smith
Oct 26, 2009 - 1:24 PM PST
The business that operates one of six UK digital terrestrial TV multiplexes is now little more than a pension fund for ITV.
COO John Cressw…
by
Robert Andrews
Oct 13, 2009 - 5:28 AM PST
— BBC natural history: Having begun digitising and tagging its natural history TV archive using the iPlayer, the Beeb has now added more sh…
by
Patrick Smith
Sep 30, 2009 - 6:13 AM PST
By Maggie Brown: Stuart Prebble, the former ITV (LSE: ITV) chief executive, has launched a social history and genealogy networking website,…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Sep 8, 2009 - 7:11 AM PST
Updated It’s been 10 months since we first learned NBC, News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Disney’s U.S. TV site Hulu wanted to open up shop in Brita…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 24, 2009 - 7:48 PM PST
By Mark Sweney: DC Thomson has no plans to scrap or sell any of newly acquired sites and plans to integrate them with its own businesses. Fr…
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MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Aug 7, 2009 - 5:40 AM PST
It’s not hard to guess what ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO Michael Grade thinks of the company’s decision in 2005 to buy Friends Reunited for £170 mill…
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Patrick Smith
Aug 6, 2009 - 1:25 PM PST
DC Thomson-owned web company Brightsolid plans to keep the Friends Reunited brand alive, invest in its dating and genealogy sub-brands, and…
by
Patrick Smith
Aug 6, 2009 - 7:07 AM PST
Despite being stagnant in Q1, ITV’s online sales are now going back up again. The under-fire broadcaster made £18 million in online revenue…
by
Patrick Smith
Aug 6, 2009 - 3:26 AM PST
So the Friends Reunited sale saga is finally over, and the final end result is brutal: it was sold off to Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson,…
by
Rafat Ali
Aug 5, 2009 - 5:47 PM PST
Reports have linked everyone from former Joost CEO Mike Volpi to Lord Stephen Carter to the up-for-grabs ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO job — and now F…
by
Patrick Smith
Jul 29, 2009 - 12:35 PM PST
Gary Cole, who quit as ITV.com’s head of revenue in March after watching that crazy £150 million online sales target evaporate, is back in…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 29, 2009 - 6:33 AM PST
What’s left of Project Kangaroo is for sale, but who’s buying? Guardian.co.uk and Telegraph.co.uk both report, as others have previously, th…
by
Patrick Smith
Jul 22, 2009 - 12:14 PM PST
If ITV (LSE: ITV) does have grand plans for its digital future, much of it looks to be on hold while the recession winds continue to blow: a…
by
Patrick Smith
Jul 21, 2009 - 6:58 AM PST
Outgoing ITV (LSE: ITV) executive chairman Michael Grade is using his last droplets of power to rally the broadcaster toward a micropayment…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 13, 2009 - 4:08 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is the latest media company, spooked by fall from once-almighty online advertising, to wonder whether consumers may pay for c…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 3, 2009 - 8:20 AM PST
A flurry of stories this week bit again at Hulu’s hoped-for upcoming UK launch, again betting on a September launch. There’s little new here…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 3, 2009 - 5:42 AM PST
Multi-platform news business ITN is having to re-think its online business model and restructure its digital division after ITV (LSE: ITV),…
by
Patrick Smith
Jun 29, 2009 - 4:51 AM PST
As we all know by now, international web exposure – even if it was unofficial – made Britain’s Got Talent a massive hit for ITV (LSE: ITV).…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 21, 2009 - 1:19 PM PST
Former BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) CEO Tony Ball – amongst the frontrunners to be named ITV (LSE: ITV) CEO – is joining BT’s board from mid-July as a…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 17, 2009 - 6:31 AM PST
Susan Boyle reprised her original I Dreamed A Dream number, but her dream ended Saturday night when dance troupe Diversity’s won Britain’s…
by
Robert Andrews
May 31, 2009 - 6:45 AM PST
Typically for the frenetic Web 2.0 community, there’s been an awful lot of hype about mobile audio sharer AudioBoo lately – perhaps excessiv…
by
Robert Andrews
May 29, 2009 - 9:59 AM PST
YouTube has begun blocking embedding of all Britain’s Got Talent clips at TV rightsholders’ request, just as Susan Boyle’s follow-up perform…
by
Robert Andrews
May 28, 2009 - 6:01 PM PST
It was a wobbly performance, less assured than her storming debut appearance, but Britain’s Got Talent darling Susan Boyle returned to the…
by
Robert Andrews
May 25, 2009 - 4:47 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) said in March it would shutter its ITVLocal.com regional web strategy – but that doesn’t mean it’s giving up on an online pre…
by
Robert Andrews
May 22, 2009 - 11:05 AM PST
— Kama Sutra banned: Another week, another banned iPhone app. This time, Eucalyptus, an ebook reader developed by James Montgomerie of Edin…
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Robert Andrews
May 22, 2009 - 10:36 AM PST
We predicted back in March that Ancestry.co.uk operator The Generations Network could be interested in buying Friends Reunited – and that’s…
by
Robert Andrews
May 17, 2009 - 11:26 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) keeps trumpeting the growing success of its website as a video destination – this April, video views were 300 percent up on t…
by
Robert Andrews
May 14, 2009 - 4:17 AM PST
Is there anything left on ITV (LSE: ITV) worth time-shifting? Apparently so. The broadcaster’s shows got four million views in their first…
by
Robert Andrews
May 4, 2009 - 6:13 PM PST
YouTube called us to put straight a “myth” it says has emerged during recent coverage of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent – that it doesn’t want t…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 30, 2009 - 1:37 PM PST
The wave of views for Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle is now be slowing down, leaving us with recently reported estimates of any…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 30, 2009 - 10:04 AM PST
Now the brief Boyle-mania craze is dying down, ITV (LSE: ITV) can reflect on how its own online sensation was the one that got away in terms…
by
Patrick Smith
Apr 28, 2009 - 7:24 PM PST
If you plotted the fortunes of Michael Grade and Susan Boyle on a chart, they’d run in opposite directions. Now ITV’s executive chairman is…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 23, 2009 - 5:13 AM PST
Craig Nayman, currently commercial director for ITV (LSE: ITV) Local, is being moved to the same role at ITV-owned Friends Reunited, even as…
by
Patrick Smith
Apr 21, 2009 - 12:37 PM PST
— ITV: There’s a new head of online advertising at ITV: Gary Knight (pictured) makes the switch from his current role of brand partnerships…
by
Patrick Smith
Apr 21, 2009 - 8:01 AM PST
“Unlikely” singing sensation Susan Boyle is now a bona fide Translatlantic internet celebrity. Online analytics firm Visible Measures, whi…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 20, 2009 - 4:57 AM PST
Update: An ITV (LSE: ITV) spokesperson told paidContent:UK: “We understand people will go to YouTube, but it starts with the TV content. W…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 16, 2009 - 8:10 AM PST
ITV’s online director Ben McOwen Wilson uses a Guardian.co.uk interview to talk up talk up reasons prospectors might fancy on-the-block Frie…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 26, 2009 - 5:45 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has won a surprise deal to sell ads around videos published by ITN Source online venture Diagonal View. Founded by former Mob…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 25, 2009 - 2:49 PM PST
— Radio iPlayer/Canvas?: The BBC is extending its partnership proposals to online radio catch-up. Auntie is already offering to share iPlay…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 23, 2009 - 6:20 AM PST
A clear sign that, for ITV (LSE: ITV), now online is all about telly, online revenue head Gary Cole is leaving in the broadcaster’s new roun…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 10, 2009 - 4:37 AM PST
Wednesday’s unprecedented announcement from ITV’s Michael Grade showed us one tactic above all others – when your back’s against a wall, run…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 5, 2009 - 3:00 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV), the UK’s leading commercial TV outfit, will try to sell some of its well-known online brands and cut hundreds more jobs in y…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 4, 2009 - 9:26 AM PST
So much for sacred cows – this is even worse than anticipated. ITV (LSE: ITV) is taking drastic measures including paring back its online st…
by
Robert Andrews
Mar 4, 2009 - 5:56 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is selling its 70 percent stake in JFMG, the company that manages radio spectrum for outside-broadcast events, to transmitter…
by
Robert Andrews
Feb 18, 2009 - 2:11 PM PST
We’ve become highly suspicious toward stories in the weekend British papers – some papers more than others. But the latest – reported all at…
by
Robert Andrews
Feb 15, 2009 - 6:43 PM PST
You can imagine how executive chairman Michel Grade fumed when someone failed to override ITV’s automated scheduling during Everton’s FA Cup…
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Robert Andrews
Feb 7, 2009 - 10:00 AM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) Football: ITV is finally catching up to the BBC on red-button content. It will broadcast a 15-minute analysis segment on t…
by
Patrick Smith
Jan 22, 2009 - 11:11 AM PST
It’s taken a while, but ITV (LSE: ITV) is now firmly getting its video-on-demand mojo on. After getting carriage on BT (NYSE: BT) Vision rec…
by
Robert Andrews
Jan 8, 2009 - 6:44 AM PST
ITV’s failure to make Friends Reunited in to a successful social network has been plain to see since its acquisition in 2005. But the extent…
by
Robert Andrews
Jan 5, 2009 - 6:19 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) will reduce the number of TV shows for which it develops mobile content in 2009. Its mobile unit head Melissa Goodwin told ou…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jan 4, 2009 - 4:13 PM PST
Troubled British broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) may be culling its staff, and calling in the consultants to wring out even more cost savings, b…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Dec 25, 2008 - 2:19 PM PST
When we revealed last month ITV.com was adding Google (NSDQ: GOOG) AdSense to its search pages in a bid to monetise more corners of its webs…
by
Robert Andrews
Dec 8, 2008 - 3:36 PM PST
The BBC wants the 2012 London Olympics to be a watershed moment in the country’s shift from analogue or TV set-based viewing to digital. Tha…
by
Patrick Smith
Dec 4, 2008 - 10:09 AM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) overlay ads ITV is excited about the overlay video ad format, which it’s been trialling, saying only nine percent of viewe…
by
Robert Andrews
Dec 1, 2008 - 8:37 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have signed a deal which will see the search giant power some web ads for the broadcaster. ITV.com wi…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 28, 2008 - 12:21 PM PST
It has already announced it will reduce its workforce by 1,000, but now ITV (LSE: ITV) is set to cut costs even further after bringing in Bo…
by
Patrick Smith
Nov 28, 2008 - 7:05 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has done something right online. ITV Local’s part-pro, part-user-generated highlights of the FA Cup’s early rounds have drawn…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 26, 2008 - 8:09 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) and S4C have teamed to produce a Welsh-language version of the former’s decidedly flaky regional web video portal, ITV Local.…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 19, 2008 - 10:56 AM PST
— BBC Auntie confirmed the date on which BBC One and Two will join its digital channels as live web simulcasts. The two main channels will…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 19, 2008 - 9:46 AM PST
A VOD laggard, ITV (LSE: ITV) is to make its shows available for on-demand catch-up for the first time on a TV platform. BT (NYSE: BT) Visio…
by
Robert Andrews
Nov 17, 2008 - 6:39 AM PST
Today, i.TV updated their free (ad supported) iPhone Application. The i.TV iPhone app is a guide for up-to-date local TV and movie listings.…
by
Omar McFarlane
Nov 11, 2008 - 1:32 PM PST
Stand-in ITV.com chief Dominic Cameron has landed the job on permanent basis and will leave his job as director of innovation at Lastminute.…
by
Patrick Smith
Nov 11, 2008 - 11:06 AM PST
Good news for broadcasters wondering if they could ever again rely on phone-ins for revenue. Voting on The X Factor is three times higher th…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Nov 6, 2008 - 12:16 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is folding its online unit in to its broadcast operations as it struggles to meet optimistic web targets made harder by the e…
by
Patrick Smith
Nov 5, 2008 - 7:58 AM PST
Someone obviously watches them. ITN Source has launched Diagonal View, its joint venture with Matt Hieman, founder of mobile video platform…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Oct 27, 2008 - 11:49 AM PST
The ruling’s in, and the the Competition Appeals Tribunal has dismissed BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) appeal against the Competition Commission’s earl…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 29, 2008 - 2:14 PM PST
Given ITV’s (LSE: ITV) present perilous state, executive chairman Michael Grade is hardly in a strong position when it comes to lambasting o…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 15, 2008 - 10:23 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) Worldwide, the broadcaster’s overseas commercial arm, is appointing former Roo sales director Jason Binks as head of digital…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 9, 2008 - 11:00 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is continuing its ambitious effort to find £150 million from online by 2012, partnering with John Menzies Digital to launch…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 9, 2008 - 7:03 AM PST
Good luck to Ian Griffiths, the former Emap (LSE: EMA) finance director whom ITV (LSE: ITV) has just announced in the same post. ITV COO Joh…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 9, 2008 - 4:58 AM PST
Speculation and guff from the weekend papers…
— Mediaset eyes ITV: The Italian broadcaster controlled by Silivo Berlusconi’s family is e…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 8, 2008 - 4:03 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has let its PriceTerrier comparison website off the leash – and there’s barely a mention anywhere of the ailing broadcaster.…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2008 - 1:11 PM PST
ITV’s (LSE: ITV) upcoming price comparison site will be a JV with Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) Kelkoo, reckons NMA. The broadcaster was known to hav…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 13, 2008 - 7:01 AM PST
It always looked optimistic, ITV’s goal of reaping £150 million from online revenue by 2010. But yesterday the troubled broadcaster pushed…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 7, 2008 - 7:13 AM PST
UK commercial TV leader ITV (LSE: ITV) has pushed back its ambitious £150 million ($293 million) online revenue target from 2010 to 2012, a…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 6, 2008 - 6:10 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) trumpeted online audience increases in a briefing with analysts this morning (Friends Reunited got a record 6.6 million in Ju…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 6, 2008 - 5:37 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has set back its ambitious £150 million online revenue target from 2010 to 2012 after only creeping toward that goal since i…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 6, 2008 - 3:53 AM PST
Updated: The stake is 10 percent, for $2 million. The deal includes an option to acquire a controlling stake in the company at the end of 20…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 1, 2008 - 1:54 AM PST
Updated: The stake is 10 percent, for $2 million. The deal includes an option to acquire a controlling stake in the company at the end of 20…
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Rafat Ali
Aug 1, 2008 - 1:35 AM PST
— ITV.com: ITV (LSE: ITV) already has a long tail of sorts on television – it’s called ITV3. But producers had withheld shows like Dempsey…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 31, 2008 - 7:41 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) wants to jointly discuss with other broadcasters a way to stop websites from linking to their online programme streams, accor…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 25, 2008 - 12:46 PM PST
That’s more like it. ITVLocal.com, the broadcaster’s three-year-old regional web initiative that got off to a shaky start and is built on so…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 24, 2008 - 7:13 AM PST
In which universe would a production company buy the TV network that airs its shows? Thrown a hypothetical on buying an ITV (LSE: ITV) stake…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 14, 2008 - 1:23 PM PST
Some of our biggest media names are culling their ad sales staff, in what could be a sign of precipitous economic times ahead…
— Sky Med…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 8, 2008 - 4:40 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) Worldwide’s head of new media Martin Blakstad is quitting “to pursue other interests”, the broadcaster told us, confirming C2…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 7, 2008 - 10:49 AM PST
After slashing regional news budgets, cutting children’s programmes and downsizing its PR team, troubled ITV (LSE: ITV) is back in the spotl…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 23, 2008 - 5:51 AM PST
— ITV (LSE: ITV) Bingo: ITV will let viewers play its new Bingo Night Live gameshow over the internet. The broadcaster enlisted interactive…
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Robert Andrews
Jun 13, 2008 - 4:07 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) is restructuring the original top tier of its Friends Reunited site, which relaunched last month with a new social network fe…
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Robert Andrews
May 21, 2008 - 10:16 AM PST
ITV’s (LSE: ITV) online revenue crept up to just £9 million in Q108, from £8 million in Q107. That’s still some way off the target of trip…
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Robert Andrews
May 15, 2008 - 3:26 AM PST
BBC and ITV (LSE: ITV) today switched on what could either be a threat to BSkyB’s (NYSE: BSY) subscription satellite service or, as they say…
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Robert Andrews
May 6, 2008 - 10:20 AM PST
Our story last week on the legal position surrounding live TV streaming app Zattoo appears to have created some movements. In response to Ch…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 28, 2008 - 2:04 PM PST
The controversial 17.9 percent stake that BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) holds in ITV (LSE: ITV) has been up for sale, and multiple suitors have expresse…
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Rafat Ali
Apr 20, 2008 - 12:45 AM PST
UK commercial TV operator ITV (LSE: ITV) has now sold its 50 percent stake in Arsenal Broadband Ltd, which runs the London soccer club’s onl…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 7, 2008 - 6:20 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has now sold its 50 percent stake in Arsenal Broadband Ltd, which runs the football club’s online interests, to businessman S…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 7, 2008 - 5:24 AM PST
In its 2007 earnings this month, ITV (LSE: ITV) said it would soon be “improving the user interface” of its ITV.com video player – the site…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 18, 2008 - 8:30 AM PST
– BBC IPTV plans: The BBC’s TV platforms controller Rahul Chakkara called on IPTV players, at the IPTV World Forum in London, to pull up the…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 14, 2008 - 6:16 AM PST
UK’s ITV (LSE: ITV) grew online revenue 43 percent to £33 million through 2007. But two thirds of that is from subscription network Friends…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 5, 2008 - 2:00 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) grew online revenue 43 percent to £33 million through 2007. But two thirds of that is from subscription network Friends Reun…
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Robert Andrews
Mar 5, 2008 - 7:08 AM PST
HBO Interactive Entertainment VP Patricia Wagstaff is joining ITV (LSE: ITV) in the newly created role of digital productions director, wher…
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Dianne See Morrison
Feb 14, 2008 - 8:46 AM PST
– O2: O2 UK has hired Matt Ward as its new head of music. Ward replaces former head of music Matt Cockett, who quit after five years in the…
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Dianne See Morrison
Jan 9, 2008 - 2:50 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has hired Sun Online assistant editor Marc Webber as ITV.com head of content, one of three new online hires. Webber had joine…
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Robert Andrews
Jan 8, 2008 - 8:22 AM PST
– Pace/Phillips: Pace Micro is doing a reverse takeover of Dutch rival Philips’ set-top box business, making it the world’s third-largest TV…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 20, 2007 - 7:07 AM PST
So reports FT, saying that John Hutton, the business secretary will receive a recommendation from the Competition Commission later this week…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 13, 2007 - 3:25 PM PST
– Disney: Disney (NYSE: DIS) is to open a UK version of its Club Penguin kids’ virtual world and is recruiting in Brighton to build the prod…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 30, 2007 - 6:05 AM PST
Signs music is becoming a service – The Sun Online and ITV.com are each launching new music sections including, amongst other things, white-…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 15, 2007 - 7:31 AM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) will drop Friends Reunited’s annual £5 subscription fee to take the site free, Media Week claims, without attributing source…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 31, 2007 - 8:44 AM PST
It could almost be a watershed moment — Google’s UK advertising revenue surpassed that generated by ITV1, Britain’s most popular commercial…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 30, 2007 - 10:28 AM PST
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is making its first gambit in response to the recent Competition Commission ruling the 17.9 percent stake it took in ITV (…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 28, 2007 - 8:46 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has restructured Jeff Henry’s ITV Consumer division that runs ITV.com, ITV Play, ITV Local, mobile content and the broadcaste…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 23, 2007 - 2:54 PM PST
ITV (LSE: ITV) has done a deal with MSN allowing the software giant to distribute video clips and other content from its forthcoming I’m A C…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 18, 2007 - 6:15 AM PST
Telegraph Media Group’s head of online advertising Gary Cole has upped sticks for ITV, where he becomes head of revenues for ITV.com and Fri…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 17, 2007 - 5:25 AM PST
A development on the BSkyB (NYSE: BSY)/ITV (LSE: ITV) story of last week, in which the Competition Commission ruled that the satellite compa…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 8, 2007 - 3:45 PM PST
For those who wondered how ITV (LSE: ITV) will manage to to treble its online revenue to £150 million by 2010 (see previous post), some sta…
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Robert Andrews
Oct 3, 2007 - 7:37 AM PST
Speculative, but could happen: After yesterday’s ruling by UK
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Rafat Ali
Oct 3, 2007 - 4:20 AM PST
Some UK-related briefs from our sister site MocoNews Read on for full posts:-
– Mobile Advertising: We
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Robert Andrews
Sep 27, 2007 - 11:51 AM PST
Kent County Council has become the UK’s first local authority to launch its own broadband TV channel. Made by Bob Geldfof’s Ten Alps product…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 24, 2007 - 4:35 AM PST
We noted yesterday how, despite having been overtaken in the zeitgeist stakes by Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, ITV (LON:ITV) intends to contin…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 13, 2007 - 6:58 AM PST
A footnote of sorts to the call-TV scandal, for ITV at least – the commercial TV leader is now scrapping its premium phone-in quiz strand IT…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 13, 2007 - 12:44 AM PST
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has declared his intention to bring in £150 million in online revenues by 2010 (it’s currently around…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 12, 2007 - 7:05 AM PST
PartyGaming (LON:PRTY) has extended a deal with ITV (LON:ITV), providing the broadcaster’s recently relaunched website with a range of brand…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 5, 2007 - 10:38 AM PST
Among the most hyped acquisitions in UK online space has finally happened: ITV, Britain’s largest commercial TV broadcaster, agreed to buy…
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Rafat Ali
Dec 6, 2005 - 4:13 PM PST